Buddhas often use the term "treasure" to describe the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
For example, the solemn Dharma phase of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas is called "Treasure Phase"
True pure Buddha-nature is "precious nature"
Call Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha the "Three Jewels" of Buddhism
Except because they are all supremely precious representations
Treasures also have the meaning of the blessings and wisdom of the world, the afterlife
Today, let's take a closer look
These treasures have something
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Shippo
Seven treasures (Sanskrit name saptaratnani) refers to the seven treasures, also known as the seven treasures, refers to gold, silver, glass, glass, brick, red beads, agate. The name of the Seven Jewels comes from the Amitabha Sutra translated by Kumarosh, and Xuanzang's translation of the Pure Land Sutra calls them "Gold, Silver, Veda, Po Shu Ka, Mu Shu Luo Je La Po, Red Pearl, and Ashima Jela Po". The names of these Seven Treasures are quite similar to the translations of the ancient scriptures. Taking the translation of the Infinite Life Sutra as an example, the Translations of the Chinese, Wei, Tang, and Song Translations have different translations.
In addition, according to the Lotus Sutra. The Pagoda Pin and the Treatise on the Buddha's Land Sutra, Volume I, are the glass of the Seven Treasures instead of a rose (karketana).
1. Gold (suvama): refers to gold, also known as purple gold. The Sanskrit name Sudaīīồna (Shubāna), translated as Miaose or Lustful.
In the Buddhist scriptures, when praising the wonderful and solemn body of the Buddha, the words of the golden body of the mysterious body are often used. The explanation of the True Truth in Volume III of the Collected Works of Translation cites four characteristics of gold: (1) the color is unchanged; (2) the body is pure and untainted; (3) it can be cast into various instruments and turned into no obstacles; (4) it is rich and noble. These four characteristics are used in the sutra to refer to the four special virtues of dharma,d'oeuvre, purity, self, and bliss.
2. Silver (ripya): Refers to silver.
3. Vaidurya (vaidurya): also known as Viliuli, Veda Liuliye, Tantou Li, etc. Translated as "cyan treasure" or "not far away". It is a jade-like gemstone. China and Japan often mistakenly think of this as tinted glass. This word has been used as "displacement" in ancient times, and future generations have added jade to the side when using it. The first volume of the Huilin Yinyi says: The south side of Mount Meru is made of this treasure, its treasure is blue, crystal clear and bright, and everything that is close to it is reflected in the same color, and the bun beads of Emperor Shi Tian are also made of this treasure, this treasure is a natural divine thing, not a glass made of human alchemy and fireworks.
4. Glass (sphatika): i.e. crystal. Also known as Sapo Ka, Sa Po Ji Jia, Sai Po Shu Ka, Po Li, etc. In the fourth volume of the "Huilin Yinyi", it is said that the ancient translation of glass is crystal, which is not entirely correct, because although glass is similar to crystal, it has four color differences such as purple, white, red, and blue, of which those who have the four elements of crystal, purity, accessibility, and clarity are the most superior treasures. The color is red and blue, the most precious, purple and white, such as the best bright sand, clean and flawless.
5. Musaragalva :Brahma Mulha May refer to white coral. The Second Book of the Lotus Sutra says: "The Lotus Sutra says, "The Lotus Sutra says, "The Lotus Sutra is blue and white. "Later generations called white corals and shells as bricks.
Volume 46 of the "Outline of Augmented Materia Medica" cites Li Shizhen's theory that the stone refers to a large clam, which is about two or three feet long, about one foot wide, about two or one inch thick, and has a deep groove outside the shell, and the inside of the shell is white as jade, so it is mistaken for jade. Now it is generally called white coral and shells as sand bricks; corals are usually red, and white corals are called bricks. In ancient times, the word "chequ" was used, and in the Middle Ages, the words such as 砗磲 and 車磲 were used. This treasure is often mixed with agate and amber.
6. Red pearl (lohitamuktika): i.e. red pearl. The Great Wisdom Theory says, "Pearls come out of the belly of a fish, in bamboo, and in the brain of a snake." In volume 1 of the Treatise on the Buddha's Land Sutra, it is said: "From the red worm, the name is red pearl, or the pearl body is red, the name red pearl" The pearl is generally thin rat color and gray, and the red pearl refers to the slightly red color of the pearl. Pure red pearls are extremely rare.
7. Asmagarbha: Not what people call agate today, but a gemstone with emerald green or dark brilliance.
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Seven Treasures of the Wheel King
According to the Buddhist scriptures, when the reincarnation king appears, the Seven Treasures will naturally appear to assist the king in educating the people and practicing the bodhisattva path. The Reincarnation King refers to the ideal Holy King of virtue and blessings. The Seven Treasures of the Wheel King refer to: wheel treasure, elephant treasure, horse treasure, jewelry, jade girl treasure, main treasure, pawn treasure and so on.
In Book XIV of the Great Treasure Accumulation Sutra, it is said: "The Reincarnation Saint King is born of a caste, and the Seven Treasures are present." What is seven? A purple golden wheel with a thousand spokes. The second is a white elephant with six teeth. Three cyanosis divine horses, aconitum Zhu Xian. The four bright moon pearls have octagons. After the five jade women, the mouth is fragrant and the sandalwood is incense. The Lord of the Lord's Treasure. The Seven Lords of the Army, the Imperial Four Domain Soldiers. ”
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Other treasures in the Buddhist scriptures
Treasure platform
Refers to a platform decorated with treasures.
For example, in the sutra, the Bodhisattva Guanyin and the Bodhisattva of the Great Power led eight billion dependents to the Buddha's house, but with the power of the gods, they each incarnated four billion treasure platforms, and each platform was forty years long, decorated with treasures such as gold, silver, glass, and pear, and flowers such as bowls, and flowers such as Bowl Tamaki, ShuBu Head, and Fendari, and there were jade girls on the stage, or playing all kinds of music, making subtle sounds, or holding all kinds of incense, or holding all kinds of flowers. And on the throne is placed Leo, and on the throne there are Buddhas, and the solemnity is incomprehensible.
Treasure house
Also known as the Dharma Building, that is, the banner of the solemn Buddha and Bodhisattva, it is often decorated with many treasures. According to the fifth volume of the Great Nikkei Shu, because of the ruyi beads placed on the building, it is called a treasure building. The Guan Wu Wei Shou Sutra also says: "On its platform there are naturally four-pillar treasure buildings, one treasure building is like a hundred billion Mount Meru, and the treasure on the building is like a night sky palace, and there are five billion delicate jewels as a reflection." ”
Treasure tree
Refers to the forest made of treasures, which is common in the buddha's braking soil. For example, in the scroll of the "Immeasurable Life Sutra", it is said: "The natural wind rises in all directions, the treasure tree blows, the five tones sound, and the rain is immeasurable." "The treasure tree also refers to the kalphu tree (Sanskrit name kalpa) born in the Tianxi Forest Garden of Emperor Shi, which can bring out clothes, ornaments and all other things needed in response to the times, so it is called a treasure tree. In addition, in the Tantric Vajrayogini, the treasure tree is one of the seventeen miscellaneous offerings.
pagoda
It generally refers to a stupa, but also refers to a pagoda decorated with treasures. According to the Lotus Sutra. See The Pagoda Pin records that before the Buddha, there were seven pagodas that gushed out from the ground and lived in the air, with five thousand friezes, tens of millions of niches, decorated with countless banners, and hanging from the lotus, the bell, etc.; the flags were covered with gold, silver, glass, canals, agate, pearls, roses and other seven treasures, and the four sides of the tower were made of the incense of the Tamarappha sandalwood.
Treasure Steps
Refers to the ladder made of treasures, that is, the steps used by the Buddha when he returned to the world from the heavens of The Li Tian. According to volume IV of the Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, there is a great Garan more than twenty miles west of the capital of the country (robbing other countries), and there are three treasure steps in the garan wall, which are used when they return to the world after the thirty-three days (忉利天). At that time, the Heavenly Emperor released the three treasure steps of gold, crystal, and silver with divine power, and the Buddha incarnated from the middle golden treasure step.
Bauer
Refers to the wonderful flowers made of various most wonderful treasures. The Lotus Sutra. In the Parables, it is said, "If you want to do it, Baohua will bear it." "And Baohua cluster countless, called Baohua ju. The Lotus Sutra. See The Pagoda Pin says: "Gather with the Heavenly Treasure, scatter the Treasure Buddha and Shakyamuni Buddha." ”
Orbs
The orb (Sanskrit mani) transliterates Mani and Vinifera, also known as Ruyi Orb, which is the general name of the bead. The orb is strict and exquisite, and naturally exudes pure light, which is universally illuminated in all directions.
Book X of the Mahabharata Sutra describes the orb as follows: By its secret it can make it clear, when it is hot it can make it cool, when it is cold, when it is cold, it can make it warm; where the pearl is located, its place is not cold or hot; if a person has heat, wind, cold disease or leprosy, sores, malignant swelling, etc., with the pearl on his body, the disease will be cured. And in the water where the Mani treasure is located, the water is the same color. Volume 102 of the Treatise on the Great Vipassana lists five kinds of jewels, namely: The Bright Mani, the Clear Water Venet, the Fang Et veni, the Priceless Vedan, and the Ruyi Bead.
throne
Refers to the lotus seat decorated with precious jade. It is generally called the seat of the Buddhas as the lotus seat, and most of them are decorated with seven treasures, so it is called the lotus seat, or the throne.
According to the manjushri Bodhisattva Buddha's Solemn Sutra, if you come with divine power, a precious lotus flower springs out with the power of divine power, as large as a wheel, with silver as the stem, gold as the leaf, and veda glass treasure as the whiskers. In statues or portraits, the lotus petals of the lotus seat are often made into jewels such as the seats of the Great Sun Rulai and the Jizo Bodhisattva.
Crown
Also known as the Heavenly Crown, it refers to the crown decorated with treasure jade. There are many kinds of crowns, mainly the following:
1. The crown of the five wisdoms, the crown contains the five Buddhas, and the virtue of the perfection of the five wisdoms.
2. The Crown of the Three Peaks, the essence of the three parts of the cousin.
3. The crown of the Buddha of Immeasurable Life, with the Crown of the Buddha of Immeasurable Life, is worn by Guan Zi Sa. There is a difference between cause and effect between these two figures, so as to express the meaning of immeasurable life in the position of self-fruit.
4. The crown of The Tamba, the Crown of the Tamba.
In addition, there are also one of the Buddha's crowns (Buddha crowns), lion crowns with lion heads, gold thread crowns, calvary crowns, Hua crowns and hair bun crowns.
Conch
i.e. snail shells. It is one of the dharma tools, and the symbol of the sound of the French sound is the preciousness of the representation snail, so it is called the treasure snail.
In the Thousand Hands Sutra, it is said, "If he is to summon all the heavens and good gods, be a treasure bearer." The Eighteenth Book of the Sutra of Non-Empty Silk, The Achievements of the World, also records that sentient beings can reduce felonies or reincarnate in the Western Blissful Lands when they hear the sound of the snails.
Treasure cover
Refers to the Heavenly Cover of the Seven Treasures. It should be suspended on the height of a Buddha, a bodhisattva or a master, etc., as a solemn instrument. According to the Vimalaya Sutra. According to the "Buddha's Kingdom", there was Baojing, the son of the elder, and five hundred elderly sons who carried the Seven Treasures to the Buddha's House.
In addition, in ancient buildings, such as the top of the scripture building and the stone pagoda, there are carved and intricately carved umbrella-shaped covers, also known as treasure covers, also known as canopy.
Aquarius
Aquarius (Sanskrit name kala6a), transliterated as Garoza, Karma, or kundika, transliterated as military holding. It is also made as a sage bottle, a de bottle, a ruyi bottle, an auspicious bottle, and a fuja bottle. In tantric teachings, the bottle of Fuja is contained, especially known as the Bottle of Fuja. The rest of the names are always American. The vase held during the empowerment is called the empowerment bottle.
Generally speaking, the general treasure bottle has built-in five treasures, five grains, five medicines, five spices and other twenty kinds of things, and is full of purified water, the bottle mouth is inserted with Baohua, Miaohua is covered, and the neck is tied with a colored veil for decoration. The aquarius is large. The position of "A-character is not born" is the principle of pure bodhichitta that characterizes the innate pure bodhichitta of sentient beings. Twenty kinds of things are built into it, that is, the manifestation of bodhichitta virtues. The treasure vase is also the shape of the Southern Treasure Department of samadhi, and the flower system of the interpolation is the appearance of the sharo tree king Buddha Wande Kaishi when the reason is meditated, and the kaishihua king Rulai is in this samadhi yahweh form. The quality of the vase can be gold, silver, copper, glass, tile and so on, and depending on it, the type and hue of the bottle are also different. The aquarius is also contained in the first volume of the Subtle Heavenly Manna Sutra translated by the Heavenly Disasters, and is a hand-held object of the type of practice.
Treasure Net
Refers to the net of treasures. The net of the Emperor's Palace, known as the Imperial Net, is also known as the Indra Net. The first volume of the Immeasurable Life Sutra says: "Treasure the treasure net, cover it." In addition, there is a "treasure net in the zen forest", which means that the treasure net of the emperor is full of emptiness, which is a metaphor for the vastness of the Dharma and its omnipresence.
Treasure Bell
It is one of the five kinds of bells, also known as the jewel bell, and is a commonly used magic instrument in esoteric buddhism. Its handle is a jewel pestle, the handle is engraved with a ghost eye, and the bell body is decorated without pattern. The bell is the meaning of the manifestation of the saying; in the practice, the other four bells are placed in the corresponding position on the altar.
Baoso
That is, Shu Suo (Sanskrit name pasa), originally used as a tool for fighting or hunting, and in occult buddhism it is used as the possession of the gods. Transliteration of Boshe, Boshe, also known as Vajraso, Luo net, Zhu Suo, Suo. In the "Huilin Yinyi", it is said: "Shu Suo, where the battle is fought, or Shu takes people, or Shu takes the horse's foot." Commonly known as a rope. When catching a raw horse, take the horse's head name Shu Suo. "In tantric practice, this cord is made of five-colored threads, with a cymbal at one end and a half-solitary pestle at the other end, or a half-vajra pestle at both ends. In order to educate tenacious sentient beings and subdue the four demons, symbolizing the convenience of the four shots, many powerful deities hold silk ropes in their hands, such as: Immovable Ming King, Bukong Silk Cord Guanyin, Thousand Hands Guanyin, Vajraso Bodhisattva, Seven Clubs Buddha Mother Bodhisattva, Light Net Bodhisattva and so on.
Among them, the king of Immution holds a silk rope in his left hand and a sharp sword in his right hand, indicating that he will first bind it with the four ropes of the true pure bodhichitta mind, and the hook will introduce all sentient beings and tie it up, and tie it with the wisdom sword in the bodhichitta heart, and as for the vajrayogini bodhisattva, he will hold the silk rope in his right hand, indicating that all sentient beings will be freed from the mud of the two-fold actual samadhi wisdom and placed in the palace of the Dharma realm of the king of Enlightenment. Also, the hand of a thousand hands Kannon holding a silk rope is called a silk rope hand.
In addition, silk cords have the meaning of guarding the boundary, and if they are tied to the neck, they are said to be reduced and blessed.
The pursuit of happiness and wealth is the goal of most people's lives, and Buddhism is no exception, believing that the world's merits and treasures are the necessary food for life. Therefore, there are various gods of wealth and treasure Buddha-figures in buddhism to save sentient beings. Regarding the Ted of these "rich men", welcome to continue to pay attention to the Enlightenment, let's break it down next time!
This article is excerpted from the Buddhist Encyclopedia